The next fight of the WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol is scheduled for early spring in the United States. This was told by his manager Vadim Kornilov. Bivol may face Joe Smith or Badu Jack.
Egis Klimas, manager of WBA and WBO world champion Vasyl Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), said that Anthony Crolla (34-6-3, 13 KOs) could become the next opponent for the Ukrainian: “At the moment we are not negotiating the transition to other weight. Our task is to dominate the lightweights.”
According to the bookmakers, Saul Alvarez is the undisputed favorite in the fight against WBA super middleweight champion Rocky Fielding. Bets on Kanelo are accepted at odds of 1.04, while on Fielding - 9 to 1. The odds of a tie are 34 to 1.
On the eve of his lightweight unification in the fight with Jose Pedraza (25-2, 12 KOs) Vasyl Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) had a small conflict. On December 8 at Madison Square Garden Lomachenko defeated Pedraza by unanimous decision.
Transgender boxer Patricio Manuel of US won his first fight in the pro ranks. Last Saturday, Patricio “Pat” Manuel entered the ring against Hugo Aguilar of Mexico at the boxing evening in Indio, California. The fight in the super featherweight division ended with the victory of Manuel by unanimous decision.
The undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs) expressed his willingness to fight Andre Ward. One of the journalists put a specific question to Usyk about it, to which he answered with strictly “yes”.
In in Sheffield, the former welterweight champ Kell Brook (38-2, 26 KOs) defeated Michael Zerafa (25-3, 14 KOs) by unanimous decision. The scores were 118-110, 119-109, 117-111.
On Saturday night at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City previously unbeaten Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (20-1, 14 KOs) unexpectedly lost on points to mandatory challenger Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete (25-1, 22 KOs). After twelve rounds, the judges scored it 115-113 and 116-112 twice for 23-year-old ...
In front of a sold-out crowd of 5,312 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko unified two belts in his division. After 12 rounds, he beat WBO champion Jose Pedraza. It wasn’t easy and Pedraza halted Lomachenko's eight-bout knockout streak, but Lomachenko (12-1 9 ...
Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) scored a twelve round unanimous decision to take the belt of Jose Pedraza (25-2, 12 KOs) in a lightweight unification clash on Saturday night at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pedraza fought like a champion, but Lomachenko was a ...
